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Serial 203
Criminal
Code (One Punch Homicide) Amendment Bill
2012
Mr
Elferink
A Bill for an Act to amend the Criminal Code to include an offence of unlawful assault causing death
NORTHERN TERRITORY OF AUSTRALIA
CRIMINAL CODE (ONE PUNCH HOMICIDE) AMENDMENT ACT 2012
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Act No. [ ] of 2012
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Table of provisions
189B Unlawful
assault causing death
NORTHERN
TERRITORY OF AUSTRALIA
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Act No. [ ] of 2012
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An Act to amend the Criminal Code to include an offence of unlawful assault causing death
[Assented to [ ] 2012]
[Second reading [ ] 2012]
The Legislative Assembly of the Northern Territory enacts as follows:
This Act may be cited as the Criminal Code (One Punch Homicide) Amendment Act 2012.
This Act amends the Criminal Code.
After section 189A
insert
189B Unlawful assault causing death
(1) A person is guilty of the crime of unlawful assault causing death if:
(a) the person unlawfully assaults another person; and
(b) the assault causes the death of the other person.
Maximum penalty: Imprisonment for 16 years.
(2) Despite section 31, a person is criminally responsible under subsection (1) even if the person does not intend or foresee the death of the other person and even if the death was not reasonably foreseeable.
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